
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a nine-time Academy Award-nominated Swedish film, stage, and opera director. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in cinematic history. He directed 62 films, most of which he wrote, and directed over 170 plays. Some of his internationally known favorite actors were Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, and Max von Sydow. Most of his films were set in the stark landscape of his native Sweden, and major themes were often bleak, dealing with death, illness, betrayal, and insanity. Bergman was active for more than 60 years, but his career was seriously threatened in 1976 when he suspended a number of pending productions, closed his studios, and went into self-imposed exile in Germany for eight years following a botched criminal investigation for alleged income tax evasion.
Series
Books

Sunday's Children
1989

The Fifth Act
1994

Bergman on Bergman
Interviews with Ingmar Bergman
1970

Images
My Life in Film
1990

Fanny och Alexander
1982

Like in a Mirror
1961

Persona
1966

The Magic Lantern
1987

Wild Strawberries
1957

Talking With Ingmar Bergman
1983

A Film Trilogy
Through a Glass Darkly/The Communicants (Winter Light)/The Silence
1963

Face to face
A film
1976

The Best Intentions
1991

FROM THE LIVES OF THE MARIONET
1980

The Marriage Scenarios
1983

The Seventh Seal
1956

Persona and Shame
The Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman
2002

A Project for the Theatre
1983

The Playboy Interview
The Directors
2012

Private Confessions
1996

Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman
Smiles of a Summer Night/The Seventh Seal/Wild Strawberries/The Magician
1960